Posts by Brian 3 202 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Oct 2010
“I don’t know how horses felt when the car was invented, but they didn’t complain that they were put out of a job; they didn’t go on strike. It’s part of evolution."
THE HORSES DIDN'T PROTEST BECAUSE THEY WERE SLAUGHTERED. This guy must resign and apologize. Get rid of this inhuman monster before it's too late.
I once TRIED to fry a NEC printer with static arcs - we were shooting 1/2-1" arcs from a small tesla coil into the I960 chip's legs for 20 minutes and it was still printing fine! End result was, the printer lived. The SDRAM chips were similarly unaffected, at least in the short term.
I had an apartment like this for several years in the Colorado mountains..... it was very cheap and a nice location. Indoor guttering! All the fancy. The water would pool on the insufficiently sloped flat roof, especially in the spring melt there would be 8-12" of standing water, and it would seep through the roof and only into my apartment. For weeks at a time.
Yeah, NASA are busy building a nitro drag racer, the sort so extreme the engine block doesn't even have cooling because it only runs for 10 seconds. While crowing about how it's "necessary" and "important" to make it super extreme b/c that extra couple %! When they could build a turbo diesel truck that could be used, I dunno, several times?
Also, wasn't there a report that the production COULD NOT be restarted, because literally ALL of the engineers/machinists were gone, and so rather than calling it "restarting" production, it's more like, developing the production from the ground up all over again.
It took me a minute to figure it out, too, but this has all been done properly. See, only 95% of the PEOPLE vs 100% of a CORPORATION, it's obvious which wins, right?
We probably have to do away with those things, really.
Can we invoke RICO against the attorneys general for this farce? These corporations have not been acting in good faith, these were intentional acts and the corporations need to be disbanded, the assets sold and the remainder given to shareholders. Criminal Corporations must be ended, not fostered. Business is about trust, and there can be no trust here anymore.
Just the rozzers showing up what trashy people they are. Arresting people for their own mistake, but not the one(s) responsible for making the information public. And what a dodgy and dystopian law. It's so loosely written, just about anything could be talked up to qualify. A truly universal hammer with which to smite any who oppose.
You're right, in this age of smartphones how can there be <secret laws we aren't allowed to know>? Someone would have photo'd and posted it on reddit, shurely! Your argument is stillborn. We have secret courts to go with the secret laws, and those accused can't even get a lawyer.
3. Research? Human researchers travel all over the world to all sorts of piss holes to study nature. To a super advanced civilization we probably would look like insane little ants, pretending to be 'people'. There is no reason to assume other advanced civilizations would not engage in similar studies. That's a primary method to learn new things, you know?
The original beetle did well primarily because of the whole cost thing. Cheap to own, cheap to drive, and easy to service, if a bit bare function. The New Beetle (TM) was expensive to buy and run, plus usually paired with crap drivetrains - though the 5 cyl and diesel were pretty good for VW. AND it was difficult plus expensive to service.
How is sleeping in a room with AC during the day substantially different from working in a room with AC during the day, and sleeping at night? Your idea only works for those with jobs that involve no AC, not really so much office jobs. Datacenters, well, they could be hot inside, some of them definitely are. But they are unlikely to be much cooler until late at night.
And there are the conveniently corrupt - those who find it convenient to have broken laws and systems, and are using such for their own convenience and power. Why would you report your supervisor's wanton and blatant corruption, when your own activities might be affected as well? Better to keep 'Riding The Gravy Train', right? Pick up some 'spades' on the way to keep yourself afloat.
It's always about working harder with you, eh? As if you "know" the level of effort put into jedit's work, and have judged it to be insufficient. (just using the name b/c of the original comment). It's certainly never been my experience to be rewarded for more effort/results. It's been the opposite some times, certainly. I have seen companies which DO link remuneration with efforts/results, but the companies I have worked for will go far and beyond out of their way to find reasons to deny or ignore you.
Sounds like it had a GoPro of some sort on board. I mean, those have bluetooth, 2.4ghz is sometimes used for radar, right? Bam, I cracked the code. The reason it couldn't transmit back to China was because it needed to be a lot closer to home first. The chances I'm right are pretty high, if it actually had anything 'disturbing' it'd be exposed to shame China.
"The XYZ corporation takes its obligation to protect the safety and privacy of its customers and the general public very seriously, and..."
Well, the CORPORATION does, but however, none of the employees give a damn, nor are they allowed to. Too bad the corporation can't make any decisions for itself, I guess!
Please, tell us what your belief is based on? the 'rampant' success of the traditional players in the last couple decades? boeing never self-certify total bullshit do they? oh no, you never see where they didn't bother to do a test run of any kind at all before launch? only to discover the minor software bug in midair?
Are the 'standards of today' even real for a company like boeing? they seem to ignore them whenever they please
Yes to this! Also, I like really old non-switching units for some things - my optical to electrical audio converter picks up an atrocious amount of interference from the USB hub's default power supply, but a chonky old 5v 2A rectified transformer doesn't have all that switching noise.
I was selling a dishwasher recently on kijiji, and looking at the others for sale to set the price, I noted that you could have a 1 - 3 year old Samsung for FREE or $50 at most - all of them said failed main boards. I wonder if they maybe just have dead power supplies.
I remember the case of those two cops who ignored a burglary call right next to them to plat pokemon go instead, and how they were able to try and argue that the conversation that was recorded wasn't admissable because it was 'personal' talk or some such... which was thrown out of course, dereliction of duty and all going on...
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